By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer The USFL kicks off Saturday night in Birmingham, Alabama, when the New Jersey Generals face the Birmingham Stallions. Fox and NBC Sports will each carry 22 games, including Saturday’s opener. It’s the first time since the 2007 regular-season finale between the New England Patriots and New York Giants that
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By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Officials in a Georgia county say they’re moving ahead with plans to build a launch pad for commercial rockets barely a month after residents voted to halt the project by a margin of nearly 3-to-1. Commissioners in coastal Camden County said in a statement Thursday that
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By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An effort by President Joe Biden’s administration to account for potential damage from greenhouse gas emissions when creating rules for pollution-generating industries has survived another court challenge. A federal appeals court in New Orleans on Thursday refused to reconsider its recent ruling reviving the so-called cost
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Despite being a Russian ally, some men from Belarus are fleeing the country to train and join the Ukrainian army to fight against Russian troops. CNN’s Salma Abdelaziz reports.
Continue Reading By Salma Abdelaziz, Sarah Dean and Li-Lian Ahlskog Hou, CNN In a wooded area on the Polish side of the Poland-Ukraine border, men dressed in crisp, clean, camouflage are given tourniquets. They kneel on the muddy ground and start to learn basic survival training. They call themselves the Pohonia Battalion, a group of fewer than
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An accomplished illustrator of books for children including a work authored by Chelsea Clinton says she’s searching for a packet of penguin illustrations that were taken from her unlocked car. Gianna Marino said Wednesday that she filed a police report after the pack of 20 illustrations disappeared overnight from the
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN)– Cuando las temperaturas en la Antártida se dispararon a 38 °C por encima de lo normal en marzo, una plataforma de hielo tambaleante del tamaño de Los Ángeles colapsó. Los científicos no saben qué papel desempeñaron las temperaturas extremas en el suceso, pero el calor se precipitó a través de lo que
Continue Reading By Clarissa Ward, Frederik Pleitgen, Ben Wedeman, Vasco Cotovio and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Indiscriminate killings of civilians attempting to flee the violence. Victims found with their hands tied behind their backs. An attack on a maternity hospital, a theater turned shelter bombed. The list of atrocities and apparent war crimes allegedly committed by Russian troops
Continue Reading Unable to evacuate, hundreds of Ukrainians near the war front lines are living without water, electricity and in constant fear. CNN’s Clarissa Ward reports.
Continue Reading By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer Michigan State leaned on Kenneth Walker III a lot during its turnaround season, handing him the ball 22 times a game with a much success. This spring and in the fall someone else will need to run the ball for the Spartans because Walker skipped his senior season to
Continue Reading By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities are investigating the cause of death this week of a Mexican woman whose leg was entangled while using a climbing harness and ended up hanging upside down off the border wall in eastern Arizona. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials offered few details. The local sheriff’s
Continue Reading By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities are investigating the cause of death this week of a Mexican woman whose leg was entangled while using a climbing harness and ended up hanging upside down off the border wall in eastern Arizona. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials offered few details. The local sheriff’s
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — The Spanish soccer federation says it has been targeted by hackers who stole emails, text messages and audio conversations involving its top officials. The federation says it believes the information was offered anonymously to media outlets in Spain. The federation has asked authorities to investigate, adding that it had also been targeted
Continue Reading By FATIMA HUSSEIN and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two House committees have launched an investigation into the government’s use of facial recognition software. The technology was most recently used by the Internal Revenue Service, but that was stopped after lawmakers and privacy advocates raised concerns. Critics of the software say databases could
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EL PASO, Texas — A warehouse consumed in flames had food trucks inside. The warehouse was being used as a shop to maintain and repair buses. Fire crews responded to a call at 1:50 a.m. Thursday at 11420 Cedar Oak Dr., A total of 14 units and 36 firefighters responded to the call. The warehouse
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VADO, New Mexico – For many, this week in April is just a regular week. But for American Iris enthusiasts, it’s this year’s National Iris Convention! Normally, the American Iris Society holds a convention every year, but it has been postponed of late due to the pandemic. This is the first convention held since the
Continue Reading MONACO (AP) — Third-ranked Alexander Zverev has beaten Pablo Carreno Busta 6-2, 7-5 to reach the quarterfinals at the Monte Carlo Masters. Carreno Busta broke Zverev to open the second set and built a 3-1 lead before the German rallied, setting up a quarterfinal match against Jannik Sinner. Defending champion Stefanos Tsitsipas advanced by beating
Continue Reading LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Southern California shoe store owner accused of mistakenly shooting and wounding a 9-year-old girl when he opened fire at shoplifters has agreed to be returned from Nevada to face charges. Police have said Marqel Cockrell fled the state in his car after the girl was hit by bullets on Tuesday
Continue Reading Germán Padinger (CNN) — El sospechoso del tiroteo del metro de Brooklyn se presentó este jueves en el tribunal federal para su comparecencia inicial, durante la cual no se declaró culpable ni inocente y se determinó que estaría detenido sin fianza. Frank James ha sido acusado por el tribunal federal de Brooklyn de violar una ley
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By Holmes Lybrand The last member of the ISIS cell known as the “Beatles,” a British group of fighters, was convicted by a jury in Virginia on Thursday of assisting in the kidnapping and deaths of four Americans between 2012 and 2015. El Shafee Elsheikh was charged with eight counts including four conspiracy charges relating
Continue Reading By Jasmine Wright Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff on Friday will become the first known second family to host a Passover Seder at the vice president’s residence, a White House official says, a continuation of their efforts to celebrate Emhoff’s Jewish faith. Harris told Israeli President Isaac Herzog during their phone
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — Freddy Rincón, tres veces mundialista con la selección de Colombia (en 1990, 1994 y 1998), falleció este miércoles por la noche tras el brutal accidente ocurrido el lunes, según informó la Clínica Imbanaco Grupo Quirónsalu, en la ciudad colombiana de Cali. Muere el exfutbolista Freddy Rincón a los 55 años de edad
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By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Ten days after Elon Musk disclosed he’d become Twitter’s largest shareholder, the world’s richest man has made an offer to buy the company outright. Musk on Thursday offered to acquire all the shares in Twitter he does not own at a valuation of $41.4 billion, according to a filing with
Continue Reading By Ryan Nobles, Annie Grayer, Zachary Cohen and Pamela Brown, CNN Former Trump White House adviser Stephen Miller on Thursday testified virtually for roughly eight hours before the House select committee investigating the US Capitol insurrection, a source familiar with the meeting told CNN. “It got a little chippy,” the source said, suggesting Miller was
Continue Reading By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An Ohio man who testified that he was “following presidential orders” from Donald Trump when he stormed the U.S. Capitol has been convicted of obstructing Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. A federal jury on Thursday also found Dustin Byron Thompson, 38, guilty of
Continue Reading By THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The online marketplace Letgo is facing a wrongful death lawsuit after the parents of five children were fatally shot and robbed while using the app to try to buy a used SUV in suburban Denver in 2020. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Denver on
Continue Reading By Gabby Orr, CNN With Republicans narrowing their search to Milwaukee and Nashville as potential hosts for their 2024 nominating convention, the second-choice city may nab a contract after all — just not until 2028. On Wednesday, Republican National Committee members unanimously voted to pass a new rule enabling the party to begin selecting its
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Fuertes lluvias e inundaciones han azotado la costa este de Sudáfrica, matando al menos a 306 personas, destruyendo carreteras y casas, según tuiteó el gobierno regional a última hora de este miércoles, añadiendo que los equipos de rescate siguen ayudando a los residentes afectados. Las inundaciones azotaron la provincia de
Continue Reading SALINAS, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters have contained a massive blaze at a central California food processing plant that prompted authorities to tell thousands of nearby residents to evacuate and to order tens of thousands more to stay inside their homes. The fire at the Taylor Farms packaged salad plant in Salinas started Wednesday night. Authorities
Continue Reading By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer DENVER (AP) — When former members of the U.S. snowboarding team sought help reporting sexual-abuse allegations against a longtime coach, they were met with conflicting information that left them unsure of where to turn. A social media post during the Olympics by a former U.S. team member led to
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